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2nd PHILIPPINE LANDFORMS and Water Forms

The document discusses the geography of the Philippines. It describes how the Philippines is an archipelago located in the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Philippines consists of over 7,000 islands divided into 3 major groups - Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The islands experience different types of storms depending on the surrounding ocean, such as typhoons in the Pacific. The topography includes various landforms such as mountains, volcanoes, valleys, plains, and hills that were formed by tectonic plate movement. Bodies of water found in the Philippines include seas, rivers, lakes, and waterfalls.

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2nd PHILIPPINE LANDFORMS and Water Forms

The document discusses the geography of the Philippines. It describes how the Philippines is an archipelago located in the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Philippines consists of over 7,000 islands divided into 3 major groups - Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The islands experience different types of storms depending on the surrounding ocean, such as typhoons in the Pacific. The topography includes various landforms such as mountains, volcanoes, valleys, plains, and hills that were formed by tectonic plate movement. Bodies of water found in the Philippines include seas, rivers, lakes, and waterfalls.

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REVIEW

The Philippines is an example of an?

“ARCHIPELAGO”
What ocean did this ring of fire
is located?

“PACIFIC OCEAN”
What is your observation in this picture?
The picture shows?

“TECTONIC PLATE”
OR ALSO KNOWN AS
“LITHOSPHERIC PLATE”
Earth has 7 contents and
5 major oceans.
 CONTENETS  OCEANS
1.Asia 1.Pacific ocean
2.Africa 2.Atlantic ocean
3.North America 3.Indian ocean
4.South America 4.Southern ocean
5.Antarctica 5.Arctic ocean
6.Europe
7.Australia
STORM IN DIFFERENT
OCEAN
1. Pacific Ocean – “TYPHOON”
2. Atlantic Ocean – “HURRICANE”
3. Indian Ocean – “CYCLONE”
4. Southern Ocean – “CYCLONE”
5. Artic Ocean – “HURRICANE”
PHILIPPINE
LANDFORM
S
The whole Philippine Archipelago is divided into 3
major groups of islands:
LUZON, VISAYAS and MINDANAO
1. Mountains
Are large landforms that stretch
above their surrounding grounds in
the form of a peak. Several
mountains of the Philippines
serves as habitats for a wide
variety of wildlife and plants.
Mt. Apo is the highest mountain
in the Philippines.
2. Valleys
In between mountain
ranges from fertile U-
shaped or V-shaped
landforms.
CARAGAN Valley
Cagayan Valley
3. Volcanoes
Being part of the Pacific Ring of
Fire, the Philippines has many
volcanoes. A volcano is a conical
structure on Earth’s crust with a
rapture or an opening from which
magma, ash and gasses are
released during the eruption.
3. Volcanoes
The rapture or the opening of the
volcano is called CRATER.
Magma is a mixture of hot molten or
semi molten rocks and dissolve gasses
that are found below the surface of the
Earth.
Lahar is mudflow made up of volcanic
fragments that volcanoes spew during
eruptions.
4. Plateaus
Flat areas of terrains
located on a highland.
Ex.
5. Hills
It is also an elevated
landform, however
shorter than mountain or
a volcano.
Ex. Chocolate Hills
6. Plains
The flat landform
that are usually
used for
agricultural
activities.
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
PHILIPPINE
WATER
FORMS
Aside from the different oceans and seas that
surrounds the Philippines, there are other bodies of
water, or water forms that are located within the
country.
1. SEAS
 a sea is a body of
saltwater
comparatively smaller
than the ocean.
2. RIVERS
Are natural watercourses
that flow toward an ocean,
a sea, a lake or another
river.
3. LAKES

Are water forms


surrounded by land.
4. WATERFALLS
A body of flowing
water that drops from
an elevation such as
steeps area of cliff.

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